Gene pool! Five sets of identical twins in a swimming class

THIS swimming class is making a splash with no less than five sets of identical twins learning the doggy paddle.

PUBLISHED: PUBLISHED: 00:01, Mon, Jan 28, 2013

Gay Grieve with her class of twins

But their teacher Gay Grieve is no stranger to seeing double – she is a twin herself.

Lilly and Poppy Dutton, six, Isobel and Rebecca Green, also six, Ashley and Lewis Cooper, nine, Charlotte and Lillian Stafford, three, and Max and Moses Cowley, also three, are learning together at the pool in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight.

I’ve never known so many twins learning at the same time. For them all to be in my group is quite incredible.

Swimming teacher Gay Grieve

Gay, 53, who has a twin Gary and who has taught there for 20 years, shouted “not another set” when she saw the fourth and fifth pairs on her class list.

She said: “I’ve never known so many twins learning at the same time. For them all to be in my group is quite incredible.”